Manufacturers of gas-powered furnaces and water heaters will not be urged — yet — to sell more electric appliances over the coming years, with proposed new guidance from the region’s air quality regulator being rejected by its governing board on Friday, June 6.

The South Coast Air Quality Management District, the air quality regulator for 17 million residents in large swaths of Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties, rejected two rules aimed at increasing the prevalence of electric heating systems on the market on Friday.

The Governing Board, though, passed a motion to send the item back to committee for further consideration and reevaluation — though the proposal will likely not come before the board again this year, AQMD staff said.

The rejection of the amendments

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